Latest revision as of 15:45, 13 August 2015

La Quadra'teahouse is a warm space to chill out, drink and share tea, ideas and time. As we take our shoes off to enter this space, we hope to leave our armors of stress and anxieties outside of this harbor... Initiated by La Quadrature du Net, it shall receive participation and contributions by many! Come and join us for goodol' analogue cozyness! Hacking with Care, for massages and more! A workshop space will be run with Tactical Tech, the Courage Foundation, Wikileaks, the Center for Investigative Journalism and others! <3

... play loud music and party, ... bring light installations, ... build up a big tent, ... bring some special machines, ... install a fridge or a freezer, ... have any other unusual installations, ... run a kitchen for our citizens, ... run a bar for our citizens

Village constraints

We do not make party but will make some noise., We are playing music and like to party, We will provide space to hang out for other camp participants on our village, We like to be placed on a non-central spot where less people are coming by, We would like to have trees on our village area, We would prefer a spot near the water, We do not like to be filmed or photographed

La Quadra'teahouse is a warm space to chill out, drink and share tea, ideas and time. As we take our shoes off to enter this space, we hope to leave our armors of stress and anxieties outside of this harbor... Initiated by La Quadrature du Net, it shall receive participation and contributions by many! Come and join us for goodol' analogue cozyness! Hacking with Care, for massages and more! <3

La Quadra´Tea House

Do you want to join, sit down, relax, and have a warm cup of tea? Feel welcome, you can have as much as you want and need not to care about preparing it... Our friendly TeaMasters will provide!

Let's chill out in a cozy analogue space while drinking various delicious teas (with and without cafeine), sharing and playing with sounds, music, stories, massages, stories and strategies! Let datalove, love and tea flow! <3

The TeaHouse will be up for its 4½th edition (Ohm, 30C3, 31C3 and Camp++)! You may have enjoyed it already in the past, come and be part of it at CCCamp! \ó/

You too can become a TeaMaster!

It's easy, fun and rewarding! No skill required! Learning is p2p, from a TeaMaster, while you enjoy some warm tea!

Help keep the tea flowing!

While you pass by, on your way in or out, you could in less than 2 minutes help greatly by:

Checking if TeaMasters have enough warm water on the tea table, in their thermos bottles

Filling the electric kettle/boilers on the gear table with water

Making sure that the water tanks are not empty, and if so go and fill them at the nearest water source.

...also if you are into dish-washing... :)

Tea Inventory

Feel free to bring some of your most delicious tea leaves and share them around! <3

Hacking with Care

Here you can receive, learn, give, Peer-to-Peer massages and other well-being wonders (surprises to be announced !!) consult resources compiled in our homemade folders, pick-up tips & tools for body & soul balance in general and in the specific contexts of hacking and activism. Look for our massage/movement/somatic awareness workshops, book (on site) an individual care sessions, or join us for tea time conversations: Let's explore what makes us feel good or bad and good again, spirited and strong - Let's take care of each other <3

General Guidelines and Precautions

Massages and physical therapy

Individual sessions & tutorials for two

There will be individual massage sessions in Hacking with Care tent next to the tea house.
Alternatively to massage, you can book a tutorial / supervision for 2/3 people, and discover a few massage steps yourself !
Schedule will be shared between well-being masseuse Emily and physical therapist Sarah, and Shaman Flo
Also, there will be moments when the massage corner will be open access (see guidelines below)

Open Access to the massage table

When Emily, Flo, Sarah are not giving sessions, the massage table and tent will be open access for everyone to get a chance to practise and offer massages to friends. Please read the general guidelines, or on site.

Become a Tea-House Hands Masseur.se !

Our hands are our tools, they transform our thoughts into actions, they connect us with the world and the beautiful beings in it. They also defend us and grab onto a lot of stress...

Discover some basics tips and moves to give nice hands massage to your peers at the tea-house, and everywhere you go (it's one of the most portable massage after all !).
Look out for an introductory workshop with Emily, Sarah, other friends at the tea house, look up resources, then PASS IT ON !
So Massage will be flowing like tea :)

Shamanic Healing sessions

with Flo Aymana

Flo has been a shamanic practitionner for 8 years. She proposes an experience which can connect you to your unconscious mind, unblock toxic emotions, and help you find your inner healer within you. Active participation is required from the person, you engage in your own healing process. So, recommandation is to come if you really want to solve a problem that bothers you, to be open-minded, not judgmental,ready for an "experience".
Flo's techniques include singing, drumming, energetic extraction, psycho-magic and what we call in Shamanism "Soul Retrieval". She practises in France and spent also 3 years in Egypt where she worked with revolutionary activists who got blinded and traumatized during the events.

Counter indications : NO intake of drugs or alcohol before the session, very important!

90/100 minutes sessions

Booking on site, paper-pen

Free donations

Workshops and open discussions

A space will be provided for cozy analogue interactions around various militant/technical/care-related/otherwise strange topics.

We will give workshops in the common workshop space, in the HWC tent, around the table at the tea house, out in the open...

Here is a list of workshops we are planning to offer. If a topic you'd like to explore doesn't come up in a group workshop, you can ask Emily or another HWC volunteer about it. If you wish to offer a workshop related to care, come !! We'll make a cozy space and time for it !

Massage

Maozada / The Handshake (Hands massage workshop)

Hack anxiety/stress with deep breathing

How to calm a monkey mind with massage

Simple marvelous massage moves everyone already knows but forget ..

Movement, stillness, awareness

Attention Som(t)a(c)tic: Body-Mind-Machine awareness

Yoga

Core Muscles Activation (to counter balance sitting all day)

Guided relaxation

other Exploration

COURAGE as a body & soul state

The schedule will be published soon..

Arts of Movement & Serenity / Martial arts

People around Hacking with Care will likely be practising some arts of movement and/or martial arts during the camp days.
Look out for improvised group workshops, come propose to give a workshop or facilitate a training, and/or come practise together.

Resources

Selection of printed care resources

We are bringing a selection of printed articles, zines, handouts, that cover various aspects of well-being, in general, and in the contexts of hacking and activism. To read with your tea, start a conversation...
They are for consultation on the village, please remember to put them back when you're done reading so others can enjoy ;)

Relaxation scripts

We'll have scripts to help us guide relaxation sessions during camp ! In English and en Français, for 10 minutes lying down sessions or 5 minutes standing up. Find or make a calm cozy spot on the village, ground yourself like an old wise tree, get your loveliest voice and guide your friends to some peace, quiet and beautiful landscapes within.

Tea and games!

Because games have always been a fun way to meet people and chill, La Quadrature will have a few card games around at the tea house to play while sipping your pu-erh.

We plan on having the following on site :

Hanabi : a game for 2 to 5 players, cooperative (all the players play together to achieve the best score they can). All players know the cards of the others, but not their own. You have, though, to play your cards in a certain order, and only three mistakes are permitted. You can give clues to your partners about their hands, but they are restricted so it's all about metacommunication.

Take 6 (6 nimmt!) : formely called Category 5, this is a game for 2 players or more, where you have to play all your cards and limit as much as possible to take any back, as they will count as points. The winner is the one with the least points when someone reaches 66 points or more.

Skull & Roses / Skull : a game for 3 to 6 players, based on bluff. First, you pile a stack of cards (face down). Then, you can start a bid. Once it is started, do you raise it (based on the total number of cards on the table), or pass ? If you are the last who has not passed, try to realize the bid (flipping cards without revealing certain figures). If you can manage to realize two bids, you win the game. It is quit a common mechanism, but it has been refined to almost its purest form.

Dobble (Spot it!) : a game for 2 to 8 players. Made of 55 cards with 8 symbols on each, never twice the same, never twice the same card and never more than one common symbol in any pair of cards. Multiple types of games exist in this one, all revovlving around the fact of finding the one and only common symbol between two cards.

Timeline : a game for 2 to 8 players. Many cards representing historical events, inventions, pieces of art and such on their face, and the year it occured on their back. One after the others, players have to guess where one of their card goes in the ver growing Timeline made of the cards already played, and then check on the back if they were right. If wrong, draw a new card. The first to correctly play all of his hand wins.

Come Hack'em!

Playing game is fun. Homeruling them is funnier! So what would be a game which goal is the homerule other games ? This metagame can be played with the mechanicards made by @EggDestroyer from Prismatik and realeased under the Creative Common BY-NC 4.0 licence.

Various stuff to add to the game if needed (tokens, blank cards, hourglasses...) will be there and free to use. And of course, the whole Camp is there to help you make!